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The Clippers came into this game licking their wounds from a disappointing home loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves, and having lost 6 of their last 7 meetings in Sacramento. It’s the sort of awkward note that could easily sabotage a bad team, and I guess I’ve become accustomed to thinking that would still submarine the[...]

Yesterday, you may have been made aware of an assault of sorts leveled at the current Los Angeles Clippers team by Beckley Mason of HoopSpeak.com. If not, then you missed out on reading a fairly blunt and direct piece whose main idea is best summed up by its title — “Boo the Clippers.” The audacity! Okay, actuall[...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoqqwL784nM It took a season-ending injury for Clipper Nation to understand how important Chauncey Billups was to a consistently functioning lineup. While Billups’ shooting percentages dipped markedly this year (and he didn’t adjust the volume of shots to correspond with his d[...]

This wasn’t the heartbreaker that the first game against Minnesota turned out to be, but it may have been an even more painful loss. ClipperBlog talks it out below. 1.1. Tonight’s defensive issues — Usual Clippers lackluster D, or something different? [...]

The jury is still out on K-Mart’s effectiveness within the Clippers’ different five-man units (6.86 PER), but it’s clear he’s already had an immense impact on the defensive side of things. All (statistical) signs point to him being the sixth or seventh best Clipper this season (you could flip fl[...]

This Report Card brought to you by Michael Shagrin. Brian Cook has been one of the more influential characters on the Clippers roster this season. Unlike the positive attributes brought by the offseason acquisitions of Chris Paul and Caron Butler, Cook’s positive output is more in line with the “addition by[...]

By most standards, the first half to Blake Griffin’s second season has been a great success. He was a deserving All-Star, the leading scorer and rebounder on a 1st-place team with legitimate claims to title contention. But grading a player like Griffin is incredibly challenging. How do we put into perspective t[...]